Method and appraisal in the physical sciences : the critical background to modern science, 1800-1905 / edited by Colin Howson.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

vii, 344 pages ; 24 cm

Includes bibliographies and index

Lakatos, I. History of science and its rational reconstructions.--Clark, P. Atomism vs. thermodynamics.--Worrall, J. Thomas Young and the "rufutation" of Newtonian optics.--Musgrave, A. Why did oxygen supplant phlogiston?--Zahar, E. Why did Einstein's programme supersede Lorentz's?--Frické, M. The rejection of Avogadro's hypotheses.--Feyerabend, P. On the critique of scientific reason.